The Best American Short Stories 1967 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Background The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction""Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73. and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines."'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms.
Short stories included AuthorStorySourceEthan Ayer"The Promise of Heat"The New YorkerGeorge Blake"A Place Not on the Map"The Literary ReviewKay Boyle"The Wild Horses"The Saturday Evening PostRaymond Carver"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"DecemberH. E. Francis"One of the Boys"The Southwest ReviewMacDonald Harris"Trepleff "Harper's MagazineRobert Hazel"White Anglo-Saxon Protestant"The Hudson ReviewHugh Allyn Hunt"Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell"The Transatlantic ReviewLawrence Lee"The Heroic Journey"The Michigan Quarterly ReviewArthur Miller"Search for a Future"The Saturday Evening PostBrian Moore "The Apartment Hunter"The Tamarack ReviewBerry Morgan"Andrew"The New YorkerJoyce Carol Oates"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been??"EpochDonald Radcliffe"Song of the Simidor"The Literary ReviewHenry Roth"The Surveyor"The New YorkerDavid Rubin "Longing For America"The Virginia Quarterly ReviewJesse Stuart"The Accident"The Saturday Evening PostCarol Sturm"The Kid Who Fractioned"Prairie SchoonerRobert Travers"The Big Brown Trout"ArgosyWilliam Wiser"House of the Blues"The Kenyon Review
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